Further Reading brings together thirty essays drawing on approaches as different as formalism, historicism, neuroscience, disability, and computation.
What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close reading and to interpretation more generally. Its contributors bring varied vocabularies to bear on the contested nature and continued importance of reading, within the academy and beyond This collection introduces new ways of conceptualizing the term's forms, boundaries, and uses. As our knowledge of reading changes in step with the media and the scholarly tools used to apprehend it, a more precise understanding of this topic is crucial to the discipline's future. This book foregrounds reading as a topic worthy of investigation in its own right rather than as a sub-section of histories of the book, sociologies of literacy, or theories of literature.
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